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哥林多前书 11:6

女人要不蒙著頭,她就應當把頭髮剪了;如果女人以為剪髮或剃頭是羞恥的事,她就應當蒙著頭。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hair;   Wife;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Men;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Vail or Veil;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Garments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Head, Headship;   Marriage;   Overseer;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Lord's Supper;   Worship of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hair;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Hair;   James, the General Epistle of;   Veil;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covering the Head;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Veil;   Woman;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hair;   Paul the Apostle;   Prophetess;   Shame;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Answer;   Clothes;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hair;   Woman;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Veil;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Corinthians;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apostle;   Beard;   Hair;   Shame;   Veil (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bareheadedness;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
女 人 若 不 蒙 着 头 , 就 该 剪 了 头 发 ; 女 人 若 以 剪 发 、 剃 发 为 羞 愧 , 就 该 蒙 着 头 。

Contextual Overview

1 Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. 2 I praise you because you remember me in everything, and you follow closely the teachings just as I gave them to you. 3 But I want you to understand this: The head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered brings shame to his head. 5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered brings shame to her head. She is the same as a woman who has her head shaved. 6 If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. But since it is shameful for a woman to cut off her hair or to shave her head, she should cover her head. 7 But a man should not cover his head, because he is the likeness and glory of God. But woman is man's glory. 8 Man did not come from woman, but woman came from man. 9 And man was not made for woman, but woman was made for man. 10 So that is why a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

but: Numbers 5:18, Deuteronomy 22:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:65 - a veil Deuteronomy 21:12 - and she shall 1 Corinthians 14:35 - a shame

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Humans have become like one of us; they know good and evil. We must keep them from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life, or they will live forever."
Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.
Genesis 8:21
The Lord was pleased with these sacrifices and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. Their thoughts are evil even when they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.
Genesis 9:19
These three men were Noah's sons, and all the people on earth came from these three sons.
Genesis 11:1
At this time the whole world spoke one language, and everyone used the same words.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said to each other, "Let's build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth."
Judges 10:14
You have chosen those gods. So go call to them for help. Let them save you when you are in trouble."
1 Kings 18:27
At noon Elijah began to make fun of them. "Pray louder!" he said. "If Baal really is a god, maybe he is thinking, or busy, or traveling! Maybe he is sleeping so you will have to wake him!"
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Young people, enjoy yourselves while you are young; be happy while you are young. Do whatever your heart desires, whatever you want to do. But remember that God will judge you for everything you do.
Luke 1:51
He has done mighty deeds by his power. He has scattered the people who are proud and think great things about themselves.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For if the woman be not covered,.... That is, if her head is not covered with some sort of covering, as is the custom of the place where she lives,

let her also be shorn; let her hair be cut short; let her wear it as men do theirs; and let her see how she will look, and how she will like that, and how she will be looked upon, and liked by others; everybody will laugh at her, and she will be ashamed of herself:

but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven: as it is accounted in all civilized nations: the very Heathens a speak of it as a thing abominable, and of which there should not be one single dreadful example: then let her be covered; with a veil, or any sort of covering in common use.

a Vid. Apul. Metamorph. l. 2. p. 21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For if the woman be not covered - If her head be not covered with a veil.

Let her also be shorn - Let her long hair be cut off. Let her lay aside all the usual and proper indications of her sex and rank in life. If it is done in one respect, it may with the same propriety be done in all.

But if it be a shame ... - If custom, nature, and habit; if the common and usual feelings and views among people would pronounce this to be a shame, the other would be pronounced to be a shame also by the same custom and common sense of people.

Let her be covered - With a veil. Let her wear the customary attire indicative of modesty and a sense of subordination. Let her not lay this aside even on any pretence of religion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 11:6. For if the woman be not covered — If she will not wear a veil in the public assemblies, let her be shorn-let her carry a public badge of infamy: but if it be a shame-if to be shorn or shaven would appear, as it must, a badge of infamy, then let her be covered-let her by all means wear a veil. Even in mourning it was considered disgraceful to be obliged to shear off the hair; and lest they should lose this ornament of their heads, the women contrived to evade the custom, by cutting off the ends of it only. Euripides, in Orest., ver. 128, speaking of Helen, who should have shaved her head on account of the death of her sister Clytemnestra, says: ειδετε παρ' ακρας ὡς απεθρισεν τριχας, σωζουσα καλλος, εστι δε ἡ παλαι γυνη: "see how she cuts off only the very points of her hair, that she may preserve her beauty, and is just the same woman as before." See the note on the preceding verse 1 Corinthians 11:5.

In Hindostan a woman cuts off her hair at the death of her husband, as a token of widowhood; but this is never performed by a married woman, whose hair is considered an essential ornament. The veil of the Hindoo women is nothing more than the garment brought over the face, which is always very carefully done by the higher classes of women when they appear in the streets.-Ward's Customs.


 
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